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  1. word usage - Reason for the current trend to use «she» as the …

    Jun 4, 2011 · Taken from the Free Online Dictionary: Usage Note: Using she as a generic or gender-neutral singular pronoun is more common than might be expected, given the …

  2. pronouns - When to use "she's" (short form) and and "she is" (full …

    Nov 8, 2019 · The difference is that she's and similar shortened forms are used in colloquial speech, but not in certain cases. In your example, she is being emphasised.

  3. She was "in" or "on" the show? - English Language & Usage Stack …

    She was in on the drama when the conman showed up at the stage door. If you are an actor in something, it's in: She was in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. She was in the movie Cat On a Hot Tin …

  4. Where is she? or Where is she at? - English Language & Usage …

    Sep 12, 2020 · The " at " is redundant. It is not needed because the questions could be more concisely put as " Where is she/he?". This redundancy, and the efforts of seventeenth and …

  5. Which is recommended/preferable between '(s)he' & 'he/she'?

    0 Yes, both (s)he and he/she are acceptable abbreviations for usage where space is at a premium and gender of a person is important. s/he is not a common abbreviation, and will confuse more …

  6. When is it appropriate or disrespectful to refer to someone as "she"?

    Aug 23, 2011 · My boss has asked me not to refer to her as she because she says it's disrespectful. After I refer to her by her proper name or by her title, isn't it appropriate to refer …

  7. Why does the contraction "she's" mean she is or she has?

    So my question is should she has be contracted as she 's in the above example like in the examples found from google ngram to avoid confusion? Google ngram hasn't been exactly …

  8. "He Isn't"/"She Isn't" V.S. "He's Not"/"She's Not" [duplicate]

    No there is not. Or no there's not. :) Isn't is a contraction of "is not". He's/she's is a contraction of "she is/he is". They are just different ways of writing the same sentence.

  9. He looked the same “as she” or “as her”? [duplicate]

    Dec 15, 2018 · If the pronoun is seen as a clause reduced to a single element, the choice depends on style. In formal style, it appears as the nominative "she", as in the unreduced …

  10. british english - "She's not been_____" or "She hasn't been ...

    Jul 25, 2018 · Using the british-english tag because I'm wondering if it is commonly said this way or accepted as correct in the UK Is it grammatically correct to say, for example, "She's not …